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Ruling that the fan’s unauthorized book violated copyright protections, a judge barred him from distributing it and ordered him to destroy all electronic and physical copies of it.
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'Lord of the Rings' fanfic writer loses lawsuit as judge dismisses it as 'frivolous'. The writer self-published an unauthorized Tolkien sequel and then attempted to sue Amazon and the Tolkien estate for copyright infringement.
The author of a self-described sequel to The Lord of the Rings has to cough up almost $150k in legal fees to the Tolkien estate and Amazon.
Demetrious Polychron had been a devoted fan of the Lord of the Rings novels since his childhood. In a 2017 letter to Simon Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien's grandson, Polychron professed his
Twenty years ago this month, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy ended with Return of the King — perhaps the most outstanding trilogy capper of all time.